Gustavo A. Mellander. Ph. D., D.H.L.

Jan.

Dr. Gustavo "Gus" A. Mellander was born in California, lived in many Latin American countries and has worked in several states. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in Higher Education for nearly fifty years. He earned a Ph. D. from George Washington University in 1966 and later was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by Felician College in 1977. He was selected to attend the American Council on Education's Institute for Academic Deans and later its Institute for College Presidents. He has served as a faculty member, a department chair, a division chair, a university dean at several institutions, a president at two colleges, a district chancellor of a two-college district with a student body of 35,000 and lastly as a graduate school university dean at George Mason University. He also served as a dean of business affairs and a university chancellor in interim capacities. He is a founding member of the American Association of University Administrators. Later he helped create a National Institute to train college presidents. Dr. Mellander helped establish several doctoral programs and taught doctoral level leadership courses at Lehigh University, Inter American University and George Mason University. He has also lectured doctoral candidates at Columbia University, Seton Hall University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and George Mason University and the University of Puerto Rico. He established Latin American Studies Departments at three universities and wrote several books on La